Palm oil is a cheep oil used in more then half of the products in the supermarkets. Additionally, in Germany (as well as in other European countries), there is a law to substitute parts of fossil fuel in cars, mostly by palm oil. Then there is the power generation – a third of the palm oil imported to Germany burns in power plants and is considered a “renewable energy source”. But palm oil has dire consequences for the climate (and thus for the ocean), it seems even in organic farming. What to do?

As shown in the picture, to simply replace palm oil with other vegetable oil is not the answer, their acreage would be to high. But should we resign and stay with palm oil like the WWF seems to intend with this numbers?